Thursday, June 9th 2016
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Goes On Sale
NVIDIA's more economically significant graphics card based on the "Pascal" architecture, the GeForce GTX 1070, goes on sale from today (10/06). The card starts at US $379, with NVIDIA selling the reference-design board for a $70 premium, as the GTX 1070 Founders Edition, priced at $449. With NVIDIA claiming performance levels higher than the previous-generation $999 GeForce GTX Titan X, the GTX 1070 could prove to be the gateway to 4K Ultra HD gaming with reasonably high eye-candy.
Based on the 16 nm "GP104" silicon, the GeForce GTX 1070 features 1,920 CUDA cores, 120 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface, holding 8 GB of memory. The core ticks at 1506 MHz, with a GPU Boost frequency of 1683 MHz, while the memory runs at 2000 MHz (actual), 8 GHz (GDDR5-effective), yielding a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s. Display outputs include three DisplayPort 1.4, one HDMI 2.0b, and a dual-link DVI-D.
Based on the 16 nm "GP104" silicon, the GeForce GTX 1070 features 1,920 CUDA cores, 120 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface, holding 8 GB of memory. The core ticks at 1506 MHz, with a GPU Boost frequency of 1683 MHz, while the memory runs at 2000 MHz (actual), 8 GHz (GDDR5-effective), yielding a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s. Display outputs include three DisplayPort 1.4, one HDMI 2.0b, and a dual-link DVI-D.
104 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Goes On Sale
From that POV, the launch pricing scheme isn't strange at all.
Now we just need the RX480 to be good enough (not better, just good enough) at a reasonable price point (GTX980 performance at anything under $250), and we have ourselves a price war. If AMD's claims are anything near reality, I'd honestly be torn between a GTX 1070 and the RX480. However, if nVidia can't stabilize it's prices and AMD actually sells GTX980 performance at 200-250, it's pretty much no-contest for me.
:shadedshu::banghead: Competition is late and NVIDIA rapes !:nutkick:
We'll see how easily you'll be able to get 1070, maybe it's all about G5X and not something else.
It's not on Sale, it's available for Purchase now.
Also was wondering how the prices of the 900 series gpus will be doing on the release of the 1070...will they be cheaper? Or same price? Or will 980s or 980tis drop in price?
NVIDIA VRWorks audio - being hyped as VR thing and being part of VRworks... and... using Oculus and Vive headsets ... does it mean it's stereo only (like downconverting surround sound to 2.0 stereo for your VR headset headphones)? Or can I use the benefit in surround sound speaker system (physical 5.1/7.1 speakers) also?
I don't have any recent nvidia (nor AMD) GPU, but ... can the HDMI audio from your GPU output surround sound (5.1/7.1) or only stereo?
and same questions about AMD TrueAudio / AMD HDMI audio output? Does it work the same or is the output somehow different? I have here older AMD GPU (without TrueAudio) and I can't find a place where I could set the HDMI speaker count at all... I assume it's stereo only.... but I have no way to be sure as it seems unchangable (or I can't find a place to change speaker setup for HDMI audio).
sale
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the exchange of a commodity for money; the action of selling something
When nVidia started new round of price gouging with "FE editions" for 1070/1080, some bright minds explained, that it's "a new process" which is "moar expensive" and that's why.
And all that despite the fact, that 980Ti was a 600mm2 card, 980 was 400mm2 and 1070/1080 are ~300mm2.
Now we see AMD coming with the new process, formidable perf, oh, and for less money than previous gen (280 was 279$).
They probably have cheaper "new process", I guess.
Oh, and all those "evil retailers", not nVidia's fault.RX480 is likely above 970, but below 980.
Note that AMD compared it to both, which wouldn't make sense if it was above 980 performance wise.
Isn't it a great card given it's price and low power consumption (likely under 130w) if it is beteen 970/980?
Setting expectations that it must beat 980... Why is that? To bash it and be disappointed when it appears to be what I said above?
Something else?
I can't make any sense off it.
Firstly, the 1070 is not overpriced. the 970 was 330, yes, but the 770 and 670 were both $400, and nobody was complaining back then. And the 280 was 279 because it was a rebrand of a 2 year old GPU. When it first came out (as the 7950) it was 449. And nobody was complaining that the price was too high, even though the 6950 was only $250.
New processes are always expensive, and the first gen of GPUs on a new arch are always more expensive then the last GPUs on an old process. This is nothing new, and counting for inflation, the 1070 at 380 is cheaper then everything but the 970. even at 425 it would be a wash.
And your argument about 280 being more expensive because it's a rebadge is puzzling.Which is also a steal, compared to this guy by nZilla
On a serious note, comparing EOLed cards pricing to current gen card pricing doesn't make sense.I don't see the point of buying ANY card, especially if your hardware is on a tight budget.
OMG price/perf 480 (based on info we got so far) is to be NDA'd on 29th of June.
All new chips are overpriced at this point.
Oh, old chips aren't cheap enough (except 980Ti, assuming you can get one for under 400$) to justify buying them.
(I'd don't think 970 is worth more than 180$)
Well, all that assuming you can wait for a month or two.
The 1080 came out only 2 weeks ago and has already been available for under $699 quite a few times. Yes it sells out very quickly as you'd expect for a brand new card, but it's definitely been available. EVGA has had them multiple times available at $619 directly from their site, Newegg has had various models at $649 off and on all week (including one with a free Gigabyte gaming mouse). Quite a few vendors have also said they expect more 1080 AIB (under $699) stock in retail next week.
If something is on sale, it infers a saving off normal price.
Usually they drop in anticipation of the new model, you know to clear out old stock and make room for new. But no dice. 980 = 400$ refurbed, 450$ new... I don't get it.